Tag Archive for BSM

Buying the Managed Objects assets of Novell would give VMware a credible entry into the Business Service Management realm with product assets that could compete head to head with those from CA, IBM, HP and BMC – especially on the VMware platform. However there were significant issues with BSM as implemented by all of these vendors, and acquiring a BSM product set would not in an of itself address those all of those (Integrien helps with root cause) issues. The real answer here remains a virtualization and cloud competent performance assurance capability which should be attainable without recreating the baggage of BSM.